Tuesdays

For me in autumn, Tuesday night is the night for opera rehearsal.  I'm in the chorus of the non-professional Toronto City Opera and we rehearse at the Bickford Centre near Christie Pits. (The soloists do the big work.) This year we're putting on Carmen and The Merry Widow.

The early rehearsals in the fall are my favorite part.  We're just concentrating on learning our musica and not yet working on our stage movements, which comes in the new year, with performances in late February and early March.

In the early part we often get separated in two:  the men go downstairs to learn their parts while the women learn their own parts upstairs.  I used to get the impression that the girls were always learning faster than we did!